HackingManufacturingManufacturingSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedPIIFinancial accountMediumContained

Smithfield Foods

bd_949fe07294db3e72 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jun 7, 2023

Filed

Jul 3, 2023

To disclose

26 days

Affected

209state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Smithfield Foods →2 incidents on file

Smithfield Specialty Foods Group LLC reported a data breach affecting its third-party web hosting provider, CommerceV3, Inc. Unauthorized access occurred between November 24, 2021, and December 14, 2022, impacting customer data from smithfieldmarketplace.com and thepeanutshop.com. Smithfield was notified on June 7, 2023. Approximately 209 New Hampshire residents were affected. Smithfield suspended the affected hosting service and provided credit monitoring services to affected individuals.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 560 days

discovery → filing · 26 days

Nov 24, 2021

Begins

Jun 7, 2023

Discovered

Jul 3, 2023

Filed

This filing is one of 5 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Part of CommerceV3 supply-chain incident (2023) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_17bd3711b266bae42023-06-29 · +4dVerified
Indiana State AGbd_7a4e3d8344499a772023-06-29 · +4dVerified
Vermont State AGbd_7c778396abd985882023-06-29 · +4dVerified by operator
Montana State AGbd_ca375fb341260f4b2023-06-29 · +4dCandidate

Name: Smithfield Foods
norm: smithfield foods
Domain: smithfieldfoods.com

Name: Smithfield Foods
norm: smithfield foods
Domain: smithfieldfoods.com
Industry: Manufacturingnaics map

Discovered: Jun 7, 2023
Breach occurred: Nov 24, 2021 – Dec 14, 2022
Undetected for: 560 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 29, 2023
Affected individuals: 209state-resident count only
Data types: PIIFinancial account
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1195 Supply Chain CompromiseT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified law enforcement
Third party: via CommerceV3, Inc.
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Suspended this aspect of the third-party web hosting service
Working with CV3 to address this issue
Arranged to provide the affected individuals with credit monitoring and identity protection services at no cost to them
Changes made: CV3 implemented additional security measures on CV3's systems
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 26 days(26 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

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Massachusetts State AGJun 29 · first

Indiana State AGJun 29 · first

Vermont State AGJun 29 · first

Montana State AGJun 29 · first

New Hampshire State AG+4d · this page

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/smithfield-specialty-foods-group-20230703.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 3, 2023
Raw hash: 554baa1cf506bc1c742fa9655b047a37988e8f73a7358f1d79b8398a9a53fee9

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySmithfield Foods

Victim entitySmithfield Foods

Incidentdiscovered Jun 7, 2023

Stated responseSuspended this aspect of the third-party web hosting service

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov